"Urban Attractors, Private Distractors"

If the pychogeographics of a city can reveal the values and behavior of its inhabitants then it could offer insight on how these cultures interact in virtual space.

Urban Attractors and Private Distractors is about the idea of experiencing privacy in public from an Eastern perspective. In the Asian communist city urban architecture has less distinction from outside/inside and private/public. Participants compare results from derives (Situationists) in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and New York City.

How is a city constructed in a culture where the inhabitants have little experience of a private physical space? Do they adapt more readily to cyberspace that is both private/public simultaneously? Organized derives in both places, (HCMC, and NYC) will commence January-March 2007. Participants will post image/text/sound/video as urban indicators of private and/or public. The data will be combined with images of the fountain- a typical public urban attractor on billboard maps that retrace the routes of the derives.

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Posted: March 7th, 2007
at 10:47am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: robots,architecture,maps

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